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The translation of "What would Caesar do?" in classical Latin.
I've researched a lot and I've not found any evidence of what this phrase would be in classical Latin. Any guest? I'm trying to replicate the Marcus Aurelius stoic phrase about Zeno "What would Zeno do?", but using Caesar instead.
If you want something analogous to another phrase, you can edit your question to provide the original Latin one to be varied. Adapting a single word would be easy.
Without any context, a decent translation would be: Quid faceret Caesar? The imperfect conjunctive is used for conditions that you know never to be realized, and that indeed seems to be the case: Caesar is not here, but if he were, what would he do?
